Latest Massachusetts Headlines
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Anderson Appointed as Commissioner of Massachusetts Division of Insurance
Dec 4 2017 // Governor Charlie Baker has appointed Gary D. Anderson as commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI), a regulatory agency under the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. Anderson has served...
Alliant Hires Massachusetts-Based Long to Energy and Marine Group
Dec 1 2017 // Alliant has hired Charlie Long as vice president in its Energy and Marine Group, where he will provide targeted solutions to a growing international client base. Long, based in Boston, Mass., brings 27 years of experience...
Unlicensed Massachusetts Contractor Pleads Guilty to Dozens of Charges
Nov 28 2017 // An unlicensed home improvement contractor who left an elderly woman’s home in ruins has pleaded guilty. The Salem News reports that 49-year-old Jaime Ford’s guilty pleas Monday to 42 charges including larceny,...
Hub International Acquires the Assets of Massachusetts’ Summit
Nov 27 2017 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of Summit Financial Corporation and Summit Financial Insurance Agency Inc. (Summit). Terms of the acquisition were not...
Massachusetts SJC Issues Decision in Auto Insurance Dispute
Nov 27 2017 // The Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts (SJC) has answered a question regarding the priority of coverage for two automobile insurance policies covering a single motor vehicle accident. In its ruling, the SJC decided...
Some Massachusetts Towns Going to Pot, After All
Nov 21 2017 // They may not be mad about reefer, but a growing number of Massachusetts communities are leaving their borders open to commercial marijuana businesses, bucking a wave of bans and moratoriums that followed voter approval of...
Global Insurer Hiscox Hires Dorr in Massachusetts
Nov 21 2017 // Specialist global insurer Hiscox has appointed Glenn Dorr as head of business development and broker relationships for North America within its London market business. Dorr joins Hiscox from Lloyd’s USA, where he was...
Allstate Sues Former Agent Over EA Agreement in Mass. Federal Court
Nov 20 2017 // Allstate is suing one of its former agents in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging the agent breached a one-year non-compete clause by misusing Allstate’s confidential information...
The Hilb Group Acquires Massachusetts’ HR Knowledge
Nov 15 2017 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired HR Knowledge (HRK) in a transaction that became effective November 1, 2017. HRK is THG’s 40th acquisition since it was founded in 2009 and its 10th acquisition this year. Located...
NIF Group Acquires Connecticut’s Agency Intermediaries and Massachusetts’ A.I.I.
Nov 14 2017 // NIF Group Inc. (NIF), a wholesale broker, program administrator and managing general agency, and its parent company JenCap Holdings LLC (JCH) have agreed to acquire privately held Agency Intermediaries Inc. and A.I.I....
Massachusetts Auto Auction Site Where Five Died Fined $267K
Nov 14 2017 // A federal workers’ safety agency is recommending $267,081 in penalties for a Massachusetts auto auction house where five people died when a vehicle suddenly accelerated into a crowd. The Occupational Safety and...
Popular Massachusetts Restaurant Destroyed by Fire
Nov 9 2017 // A fire has destroyed a popular restaurant in Massachusetts that just celebrated its 50th anniversary in business. Officials were called to Jamie’s Pub in Scituate, Mass., around 4:20 a.m. Sunday. Fire Chief John...
Massachusetts’ Sullivan Insurance Group Hires Eisnor
Nov 8 2017 // Sullivan Insurance Group is continuing to grow its personal lines department with the addition of Shilo E. Eisnor. Eisnor has worked in the insurance industry for twenty years at several agencies, most recently at the...
Breitstone Named CEO of Massachusetts Insurtech Company Goji
Nov 6 2017 // Peter Breitstone, a former senior executive at Insureon, Aon and Zurich, was named CEO of Goji, a Boston, Mass.-based, technology-enabled personal lines insurance distribution platform that matches high lifetime value...
Massachusetts Chicken Eatery Owner Sentenced for Fraud
Nov 6 2017 // A New York man who had an ownership stake in 11 fried chicken restaurants in the Boston, Mass., area has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for tax, insurance and immigration fraud. Federal prosecutors say...
Eastern Insurance Group in Massachusetts Promotes Tucker
Nov 6 2017 // Eastern Insurance Group has promoted Katelyn Tucker to vice president and benefits account executive at Eastern Benefits Group, the insurance firm’s employee benefits division. Tucker, who works out of the Wakefield,...
Massachusetts Family Still Without Power Poisoned by CO from Generator
Nov 3 2017 // A Massachusetts family still without power days after a violent wind and rain storm struck New England was taken to the hospital after carbon monoxide from an outside generator seeped into their home. Fire officials in...
Anderson Appointed as Commissioner of Massachusetts Division of Insurance
Nov 2 2017 // Governor Charlie Baker has appointed Gary D. Anderson as commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI), a regulatory agency under the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. Anderson has served...
Allstate Sues Former Agent Over EA Agreement in Mass. Federal Court
Oct 31 2017 // Allstate is suing one of its former agents in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging the agent breached a one-year non-compete clause by misusing Allstate’s confidential information...
Massachusetts’ Morrison Mahoney Elects Six New Partners
Oct 20 2017 // Morrison Mahoney LLP, a Boston, Mass.-headquartered law firm, has announced the election of six new partners. The partners represent a range of practice areas including appeals, insurance coverage, construction litigation,...
